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>> we do not have any official statements from the pentagon. we have confirmed it with military sources who are familiar with the operations that were taking place in that region. adam housley, my colleague, confirmed it with one of his sources and i confirmed it, i have a second source. so we know -- we've learned that just early dawn this morning, the seals took out the head of al-shabab. >> arthel: very good. senior national security correspondent jennifer griffin, thank you so much for that update. we're going to bring mike baker back in. >> gregg: let's get back to mike baker, former c.i.a. operative. so mike, seaside town, u.s. navy seals, and it's pretty quick, within two weeks after the attack of the west gate mall and they take out the leader of al-shabab. how important is this? >> well, it's very important in part because of what jennifer just said t. does send a message. they do pay attention to this sort of thing. part of the problem that's always been with any al-qaeda element is that they don't seem to have much trouble filling th
>> we do not have any official statements from the pentagon. we have confirmed it with military sources who are familiar with the operations that were taking place in that region. adam housley, my colleague, confirmed it with one of his sources and i confirmed it, i have a second source. so we know -- we've learned that just early dawn this morning, the seals took out the head of al-shabab. >> arthel: very good. senior national security correspondent jennifer griffin, thank you so...
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republicans accuse the pentagon of not enforcing the spirit of the law. not so pentagon robert hale told congress today. >> during the lapse dod has no legal authority to pay death gratuities. we've been through this with the justice department, general council. it's another section of the law separate from pay and allowances. we don't have the legal authority. i don't think you want us to go around the law. >> the white house avoided directly answering when the president learned about the problem. >> in his evening walk on tuesday, the president raised the concern about death benefits not being paid to deserving families. the president directed him to get create pif and get it solved within 24 hours. >> it's not clear if the president plans to sign the law passed by the senate today. fisher house is still on the hook to pay 29 families. >> live at the pentagon, jennifer, thank you. the obama administration says it will allow states to use their own money to reopen some national parks closed by the shutdown. the top officials of one tennessee community ar
republicans accuse the pentagon of not enforcing the spirit of the law. not so pentagon robert hale told congress today. >> during the lapse dod has no legal authority to pay death gratuities. we've been through this with the justice department, general council. it's another section of the law separate from pay and allowances. we don't have the legal authority. i don't think you want us to go around the law. >> the white house avoided directly answering when the president learned...
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all serving or recently is served in the pentagon. people who served in the clinton pentagon who are very well thought of and again on a bipartisan basis. i really don't know why the president wants him except i think maybe he likes the fact that chuck hagel has complained about the power of the jewish lobby and was one of the few senators to vote against the iran sanctions the policy the president now claims as his own and refused to vote to designate the iranian guard a terrorist group. >> maybe he likes the idea of one on one negotiations over the nuclear program. he also said this in an interview with vietnam magazine, i'm not a passivist. i believe in using force but only after a careful decision-making process. i will do everything i can to avoid needless senseless war. is that an unreasonable position for a secretary of defense to have? >> i think it is in line with where we see the president going in terms of using he doesn't want to put troops on the ground any more. he made that clear. he wants to the rely more on unmanned d
all serving or recently is served in the pentagon. people who served in the clinton pentagon who are very well thought of and again on a bipartisan basis. i really don't know why the president wants him except i think maybe he likes the fact that chuck hagel has complained about the power of the jewish lobby and was one of the few senators to vote against the iran sanctions the policy the president now claims as his own and refused to vote to designate the iranian guard a terrorist group....
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i've agreed we should audit the pentagon. democrats told me he about their bill. but we need more conversation. >> thank you for joining us. straight ahead, our next guest slamming the white house press corps. also, guess who is calling to surprise me? all this week we're taking a call from a famous surprise caller. i have no idea who it is. you'll find out who it is on the line when i do. >>> it's that time again. time to show the best videos of the day and here's what we're watching. are you looking for the mixed drink i'll? we found it. security camera footage in one store gives that phrase a whole new meaning. take a look. just moments after an employee finished stacks bolts, everything came crashing down. you might say it had a short shelf life. and here is an interesting way to start your day. people in a new york city coffee shop were horrified by an outraged customer with tell kinetic powers. it's just a promotional stuff for a movie.tellkinetic powers. it's just a promotional stuff for a movie. ♪ want to sound like the beatles? jimmy fallon found out wh
i've agreed we should audit the pentagon. democrats told me he about their bill. but we need more conversation. >> thank you for joining us. straight ahead, our next guest slamming the white house press corps. also, guess who is calling to surprise me? all this week we're taking a call from a famous surprise caller. i have no idea who it is. you'll find out who it is on the line when i do. >>> it's that time again. time to show the best videos of the day and here's what we're...
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not here in pentagon budget. not in the infrastructure budget. >> bret: last thing, this i heard someone the owe day saying this wasn't the bar of peanuts compared to what is on the table. ahe for financial -- ahead for financial possibilities we're facing. that is what you are talking about. next is up the continuing resolution at the end of march. that is another battle. >> that is the bill that funds the government. if they can't come to agreement on that, we start with the government shutdownment we have been through those before. they produce a lot of sound an furry and not much progress on policy front. it would be a great benefit to everyone if we put aside the battles. look at the big problem that everyone knows need to be fixed and fing them. >> bret: thank you. >> thanks. >> bret: it is award season next grape grape. the most conservative and the most liberal member of the u.s. senate. hey, our salads. [ bop ] [ bop ] [ bop ] you can do that all you want, i don't like v8 juice. [ male announcer ] how ab
not here in pentagon budget. not in the infrastructure budget. >> bret: last thing, this i heard someone the owe day saying this wasn't the bar of peanuts compared to what is on the table. ahe for financial -- ahead for financial possibilities we're facing. that is what you are talking about. next is up the continuing resolution at the end of march. that is another battle. >> that is the bill that funds the government. if they can't come to agreement on that, we start with the...
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. >> a recent pentagon report shows that one of afghan army 23 brigades was able to operate without military support from the u.s. or nato. you expect it to improve by 2014? >> i think the whole engagement is catastrophic and you look at the harvest of what we have done and look at sacrifices of the last 12 years now we had in afghanistan. we don't have much to show for it. we have a karzai as president . dysfunctional units that made habits . the afghan sold yirs were killing our own people and hundreds of billions later, the the fatalities and casuallies. it is it a good wor. but there is nothing good about the war. the chaos will claim afghanistan and the taliban will claim afghanistan and our work will have been for naught. >> that is it a sobering picture that you paint there. thank you for your insight. i appreciate it >> you, too. >> and rebel sitings are pressing ahead with fencive. there is a car boiming in damascus . in is follows a deadly crash. it is saying they were set off by rebels. battles in suburbs on the way to the airport want and they are are reporting the shooting death
. >> a recent pentagon report shows that one of afghan army 23 brigades was able to operate without military support from the u.s. or nato. you expect it to improve by 2014? >> i think the whole engagement is catastrophic and you look at the harvest of what we have done and look at sacrifices of the last 12 years now we had in afghanistan. we don't have much to show for it. we have a karzai as president . dysfunctional units that made habits . the afghan sold yirs were killing our...
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and, yet, the pentagon gives specific instructions not to make death payments. ladies and gentlemen, this didn't fall through the cracks. they actually looked at it and said no money for you or your kid. the administration's latest excuse, our lawyers misinterpreted the law. seriously? but then again, that's no surprise. in over his head holder, the one who lied to congressnd shipped drugs to the mexican drug dealers, is he just plain incompetent. and this guy, secretary of defense hagel, who sits at the citadel of the pentagon, the ranking member of the senate armed services committee, a member of his own party said he should never have been confirmed in the first place because hagel believes americans should apologize to our world adversaries, shun our friends and because we criticized the jewish lobby. secretary hagel, you call yourself a decorated combat veteran and you don't allow for these payments and then when the cat's out of the bag, you have the audacity, the hutzpah, the balls to show up at dover air force base for the first time as secretary of defe
and, yet, the pentagon gives specific instructions not to make death payments. ladies and gentlemen, this didn't fall through the cracks. they actually looked at it and said no money for you or your kid. the administration's latest excuse, our lawyers misinterpreted the law. seriously? but then again, that's no surprise. in over his head holder, the one who lied to congressnd shipped drugs to the mexican drug dealers, is he just plain incompetent. and this guy, secretary of defense hagel, who...
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and his business experience will help him prioritize pentagon spending cuts that everyone knows is coming. >> even though we make tough fiscal choices we have to do so wisely guided by a our stlaj and keep the military the strongest fighting force. >> reporter: but it drew immediate fire. it was a 14-year-old comment about a diplomat being aggressively gay which hagel has apologized and his opposition in iraq and troop surge and independents what he called the jewish lobby and called for talks with hezbollah. all which led lindsay graham and in your face nomination, that the number two republican senator frankly skeptical. >> i think the president has much better choices as secretary of defense than to choose somebody who fails when it comes to the number one security issue mainly a nuclear iran. >> he praised john brennan's tireless work as counter-terrorism director. >> reporters ask you, you don't get any down time. john said, i don't do down time. [ laughter ] >> brennan will face questions about drone strikes that may be more properly direct at the president. republicans may use the
and his business experience will help him prioritize pentagon spending cuts that everyone knows is coming. >> even though we make tough fiscal choices we have to do so wisely guided by a our stlaj and keep the military the strongest fighting force. >> reporter: but it drew immediate fire. it was a 14-year-old comment about a diplomat being aggressively gay which hagel has apologized and his opposition in iraq and troop surge and independents what he called the jewish lobby and...
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we sent it over to the pentagon and the pentagon decides on its own, you didn't. no one calls up and says, hey, send us something else. they just let it lie. until the press got a hold of it. >>cy in a lot of ways, i think that presep tated this resignation thing coming now. that one story was bad enough and these -- began to think, what else is going to be out there? let's get it done so there's no more horror stories. nobody won on that. it's certainly something that would seem like a -- isn't it amazing how many things seem like no brainers and then you say, gee, that was a no brainer. >> you were talking about hagel. i don't know if this is on hagel. certainly the pentagon could have done more than it did. the thing that really stung me was he went to dover for the first time in his seven months as secretary of defense on tuesday. that video of him standing there while the bodies are coming in. he'd never been before. and 113 of them have come home during his tenure. he goes for these five in the middle of this? >> politicians by nature when they make a big mi
we sent it over to the pentagon and the pentagon decides on its own, you didn't. no one calls up and says, hey, send us something else. they just let it lie. until the press got a hold of it. >>cy in a lot of ways, i think that presep tated this resignation thing coming now. that one story was bad enough and these -- began to think, what else is going to be out there? let's get it done so there's no more horror stories. nobody won on that. it's certainly something that would seem like a...
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it is frustrating. >> with the transfer authority could the pentagon live with these cuts? >> depends on what the mission is. as general dempsey hit it what is the mission? if you tell us what the mission is give us the transfer authority what are we doing next year the same situation next year. men and women serving deserve better the american people deserve better. it is time for leadership with the president. it's a dumb idea. it's his idea. we were told in fact this never happened. sequestration is never going to happen. what do we do now? continue to throw bombs at each other or solve the problem. let's have pizza and beers and figure it all out. >> talk about the sequestration going forward. you asked has the president cried uncle the question is have you been crying wolf in the sense that he painted this dire picture of the impact. thanks to some reporting in our paper and others he has been forced to step back>> i love how you are saying it's not going to be the he has all of the secretaries janet napolitano saying it will be in politics. >> the way it is played out
it is frustrating. >> with the transfer authority could the pentagon live with these cuts? >> depends on what the mission is. as general dempsey hit it what is the mission? if you tell us what the mission is give us the transfer authority what are we doing next year the same situation next year. men and women serving deserve better the american people deserve better. it is time for leadership with the president. it's a dumb idea. it's his idea. we were told in fact this never...
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i didn't even know the pentagon had a channel. beef jerky from france is so the chopping blocks and how best for democracy. but leave you it to come up with $70 billion of cuts at the department of defense. senator coburn says if you scrap 1300 programs that duplicate each over you could save another $364 billion. it doesn't end there. our own lizzie apparently federal workers aren't doing federal work. we'll get to the bottom of that. we do know that the federal feet warmers are costing $156 million a year and then there is army ranger lucas who says like the billions he says could be saved by cutting overlapping costs by drone technology and electronic warfare. in total more than $479 billion that the government could start cutting right now, that is more than five times the cuts they are screaming about taking effect. first, tom on the unspent dough. congressman, i was surprised to see how much we're talking about? >> yeah, it's remarkable and the american people know this. we have a budget of $3.6 trillion. we've identified $4
i didn't even know the pentagon had a channel. beef jerky from france is so the chopping blocks and how best for democracy. but leave you it to come up with $70 billion of cuts at the department of defense. senator coburn says if you scrap 1300 programs that duplicate each over you could save another $364 billion. it doesn't end there. our own lizzie apparently federal workers aren't doing federal work. we'll get to the bottom of that. we do know that the federal feet warmers are costing $156...
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no delegation and and no transfer of. >> chris: with the transfer of authority could the pentagon live with the cuts? >> depends on what the mix is. general dempsey hit it, what is the mission. he hit it right on the head. if you will have us be in three or four conflicts around the world and cut another half a trillion. tell us the mission and give us the transfer authority and we can make it work short term. next year we will be in the same situation and, once again, our men and women serving deserve better and the american people deserve better. the president it is a dumb idea. it is his idea. and we were told that in fact it would never happen. sequestration is never going to happen. well, it happen so what do we do now? we continue to throw bombs at each other or actually get together and solve the problems? go out to camp david and grab pizza and beers and let's figure it. >> chris: chuck, you thoughts about sequestration going forward? >> you asked has the president cried uncle. another question is has he cried wolf? he painted a dire impact. thanks to our reporting and others h
no delegation and and no transfer of. >> chris: with the transfer of authority could the pentagon live with the cuts? >> depends on what the mix is. general dempsey hit it, what is the mission. he hit it right on the head. if you will have us be in three or four conflicts around the world and cut another half a trillion. tell us the mission and give us the transfer authority and we can make it work short term. next year we will be in the same situation and, once again, our men and...
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i've agreed we should audit the pentagon. democrats told me he about their bill. but we need more conversation. >> thank you for joining us. straight ahead, our next guest slamming the white house press corps. also, guess who is calling to surprise me? all this week we're taking a call from a famous surprise caller. i have no idea who it is. you'll find out who it is on the line when i do. of providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. if you look at a khan academy video, they cover everything from basic arithmetic to calculus, trigonometry, finance. you can really just get what you need at your own pace. and so, bank of america came and reached out to us and said, "we are really interested in making sure that everyone really understands personal finance." we're like, "well, we're already doing that." and so it was kind of a perfect match. [ alarm sound for malfunctioning printer ] [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you've learned a thing or two. [ metal clanks ] ♪ this is the age of knowing what you're made of. so why let erectile
i've agreed we should audit the pentagon. democrats told me he about their bill. but we need more conversation. >> thank you for joining us. straight ahead, our next guest slamming the white house press corps. also, guess who is calling to surprise me? all this week we're taking a call from a famous surprise caller. i have no idea who it is. you'll find out who it is on the line when i do. of providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. if you look at a khan academy video,...
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jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon. there's been little recent fanfare surrounding an almost forgotten war. >> reporter: october 7th, 2001, the united states went to war in afghanistan. congress authorized the use of military force to go after al qaeda and those who harbored terrorists. by december 2001 the taliban had fallen. 12 years later, 54,000 u.s. troops remain in afghanistan and the american public is war weary. the first casualty of the war, captain johnny michael span, his daughter was 10 years old. she's now a senior in college. president obama once referred to afghanistan as the good war compared to iraq. he authorized a surge of 30,000 u.s. forces in 2009 and in the same breath vowed to bring u.s. troops by 2014. >> i think sometimes we haven't seen enough remind er in the nes that we still have tens of thousands of american troops on mission in afghanistan making enormous sacrifices and there are still folks getting hurt and killed. >> reporter: americans like army sergeant angel lopez from ohio. he was ki
jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon. there's been little recent fanfare surrounding an almost forgotten war. >> reporter: october 7th, 2001, the united states went to war in afghanistan. congress authorized the use of military force to go after al qaeda and those who harbored terrorists. by december 2001 the taliban had fallen. 12 years later, 54,000 u.s. troops remain in afghanistan and the american public is war weary. the first casualty of the war, captain johnny michael span,...
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. >> pentagon officials are confirming instructions order officials to stop payments as soon as the standoff began. that includes burial funds and 100,000 dollar allowance. over the past weekend 4 soldiers were killed in combat two army rangers another one a marine their families having to find their own
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but we begin with national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. >> good evening, jennifer. >> good evening, bret. after two days of political gripping the congress scrambled to make a resolution to make things right. >> reporter: they paid the ultimate sacrifice for the nation and their families were paid the ultimate insult. denied the $100,000 in death benefits and paid travel to dover air force base to meet their next of kin due to the partial government shutdown. sergeant joseph parts, first lieutenant jennifer marino, sergeant patrick hawkins and private first class codey patterson returned home from afghanistan. friends of sergeant peters who left behind a wife and 20-month-old son expressed concern. >> people lose their life. people losing their sons and daughters. their husbands, their wives. >> they have family waiting that need help. >> reporter: on the eve the shutdown, the president signed the way on military families act. they thought that law gave the pentagon the authority it needed to pay benefits. >> it's disgraceful that they're withholding these
but we begin with national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. >> good evening, jennifer. >> good evening, bret. after two days of political gripping the congress scrambled to make a resolution to make things right. >> reporter: they paid the ultimate sacrifice for the nation and their families were paid the ultimate insult. denied the $100,000 in death benefits and paid travel to dover air force base to meet their next of kin due to the partial government...
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>> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. so what do you think about allowing women in combat? let me know on twitter. follow me @brettbaier. controversy is very much in the eye of the beholder. case and point later in the grapevine. up next, does president obama really want to anilate the republican party? jenna shared her recipe with sharon, who emailed it to emily, who sent it to cindy, who wondered why her soup wasn't quite the same. the recipe's not the recipe... ohhh. [ female announcer ] ...without swanson. the broth cooks trust most when making soup. mmmm! [ female announcer ] the secret is swanson. ♪ ♪ hi dad. many years from now, when the subaru is theirs... hey. you missed a spot. ...i'll look back on this day and laugh. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend
>> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. so what do you think about allowing women in combat? let me know on twitter. follow me @brettbaier. controversy is very much in the eye of the beholder. case and point later in the grapevine. up next, does president obama really want to anilate the republican party? jenna shared her recipe with sharon, who emailed it to emily, who sent it to cindy, who wondered why her soup wasn't quite the same. the recipe's not the recipe......
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to slice the pentagon's budget. dean telling the huffington post i'm in favor of the sequester. it's tough on things i care about a lot but the fact of the matter is you are not going to get another chance to cut the defense budget in the way it needs to be cut. white house officials disagree. as an outgoing defense secretary leon panetta who warned such deep cuts could leave america with a second rate military. you will remember republicans were furious before the election that the white house did not follow the warren act that requires employers to warn employees about the potential lay-offs. since furlough notices are only going out now, defense officials say they work at the pentagon until late april. even if the sequest starts on march 1. at the white house, ed henry. fox news. >> bret: the pentagon's budget chief says the effects of the cuts will be felt nationwide. he says the biggest potential losses will be in california, texas, georgia and virginia. national security correspondent jennifer griffin on what it could mean for one virginia community. >> sequester take effe
to slice the pentagon's budget. dean telling the huffington post i'm in favor of the sequester. it's tough on things i care about a lot but the fact of the matter is you are not going to get another chance to cut the defense budget in the way it needs to be cut. white house officials disagree. as an outgoing defense secretary leon panetta who warned such deep cuts could leave america with a second rate military. you will remember republicans were furious before the election that the white house...
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. ♪ >> the pentagon on the fighting force system on suspension. officials in washington told us navy admiral is under investigation for matters related to gambling. it was a suspension handed down three weeks sxoog not disclosed until now. no further details were revealed. he is a signed for command but not performing duties related to nuclear weapons or secourt clearness. >> iowa rannians welcoming their president home from the meeting with the un in new york city. and following the breaking of silence tone the highest leaders of u.s. and iran since 19sfoin. hundreds of people cheered. but approval was hardly universal. opponents protested in the streets of teheran and security guardsçó fending off a protesto throwing a shoe is the ultimate insult. >> it was the 15 minute phone call heard around the world. in his first trip as president. rouhani pushing for a resolution between the two great nations to finally resolve u.s. concerns over iran's nuclear ñrprogram. rouhani is ready to offer more transpartnerency and to assure the u.s., that the i
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you also backed the sequester of across-the-board cuts even in the pentagon. isn't one of the g.o.p.'s planks that it is tough on national security. >> you can be first speal responsible and tough on national security. >>chris: the drone has nothing to do with fiscal issues. >> so there are two issues. one is about basic civil liberties. the new g.o.p. reflected by rand paul's willingness to challenge the status quo in both the republican and democratic party is a healthy thing. young people, if particular, are looking for leadership that is willing to challenge the idea that the government is always right. that is where we are, as well. on defense, though, frankly on any budget, any program, any department of the federal government, let's all acknowledge that there is waste and things that need to be eliminated and trimming of defense would be a very healthy thing. you have to puttering on -- put everything on the tail. you can say say certain things cannot be touched. >>chris: sir, rand paul talked about defense hawks like john mccain and senator graham as "
you also backed the sequester of across-the-board cuts even in the pentagon. isn't one of the g.o.p.'s planks that it is tough on national security. >> you can be first speal responsible and tough on national security. >>chris: the drone has nothing to do with fiscal issues. >> so there are two issues. one is about basic civil liberties. the new g.o.p. reflected by rand paul's willingness to challenge the status quo in both the republican and democratic party is a healthy...
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. >> a few months later, he is brought in the pentagon for a meeting as part of a muslim outreach program. not only do the documents show he was buying tickets for hijackers they show he was a central focus of the f.b.i.'s investigation of 9/11. >> handling of the al-awlaki spans the bush and the obama administration. al-awlaki was the first american citizen targeted for death by the c.i.a. and killed in september of 2011. bret? >> bret: you mentioned that al-awlaki was taken out bay drone strike in september of 2011 in yemen. america's use of drone in pakistan, has obviously increased substantially under president obama. we are getting word of senior taliban commander was killed in a strike tuesday in pakistan northwest territory. drone strike. guantanamo bay detension facility that is open and the resigning of fisa, all bush era war on terror programs that continued or expanded and now rendition. >> new case is raising questions about the detention policy. >> arrested in augustover seas in jabuti. training for one suspects a the men were held in secret, interrogated by the authorities a
. >> a few months later, he is brought in the pentagon for a meeting as part of a muslim outreach program. not only do the documents show he was buying tickets for hijackers they show he was a central focus of the f.b.i.'s investigation of 9/11. >> handling of the al-awlaki spans the bush and the obama administration. al-awlaki was the first american citizen targeted for death by the c.i.a. and killed in september of 2011. bret? >> bret: you mentioned that al-awlaki was taken...
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national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live in the pentagon tonight. good evening, jennifer. >> reporter: good evening. secretary of state john kerry left moscow, confronted with leaked reports that israel had warned the u.s. that the russians were preparing to deliver batteries of sa-300 eapt aircraft missiles which are sophisticated enough to intercept manned aircraft and guided missiles, a game-changer should the syrians on th obtaine system. >> we prefer that russia would not supply assistance. we have previously stated that the missiles, particularly a-300, is potentially destabilizing with respect to the state of israel, and so we've made it very clear historically that that is a concern of the united states. >> reporter: during his meeting in moscow, some news reports suggested that kerry had backtracked on a u.s. call for syrian president bashar assayed to step aside, an accusation that kerry denied today in rome. >> there is no way that anybody here believes that the opposition is ever going to give consent to president assad to be running tha
national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live in the pentagon tonight. good evening, jennifer. >> reporter: good evening. secretary of state john kerry left moscow, confronted with leaked reports that israel had warned the u.s. that the russians were preparing to deliver batteries of sa-300 eapt aircraft missiles which are sophisticated enough to intercept manned aircraft and guided missiles, a game-changer should the syrians on th obtaine system. >> we prefer that russia...
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pentagon officials bristled at having to plan for what many see as washington not doing their work. >> it has or will consume a lot of senior management attention, probably thousands of hours of employee time better spent on supporting national security. >> reporter: national parks across the country and national monuments here in washington would close. social security and medicare benefits would go out but applications for new benefits would be delayed. with an animated offering on the internet, the white house launched the crucial sign-up phase obama care's health insurance exchanges. >> starting october 1st, go to healthcare.gov and see all the plans available in your area and sign up for the one that fits your needs and your budget. >> reporter: applicants will have to send in their applications by mail and the online spanish language sign-ups won't be ready next week. the president says these are start-up glitches. but when you add the waiver, some republican senators are urging the house not to compromise with the president. >> when he's throwing around insults like irrational
pentagon officials bristled at having to plan for what many see as washington not doing their work. >> it has or will consume a lot of senior management attention, probably thousands of hours of employee time better spent on supporting national security. >> reporter: national parks across the country and national monuments here in washington would close. social security and medicare benefits would go out but applications for new benefits would be delayed. with an animated offering...
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and in the pentagon's list of announces, these death gratuities have frequently been included. so the members of congress who acted on this and those signing it thought these death benefits were covered and there wouldn't be a problem with it. lawyers then got into the act when the issue arose and decided that, no, it didn't really cover it. we're hearing at fox news today there's a possibility the justice department may have gotten involved. there's a lot of -- >> i want the name of the lawyers who stopped it. let's cut through it. >> the point being that this, it seems to me, could have been interpreted -- >> hume, you don't give it to the pinheaded lawyer. nobody's going to challenge it, okay, and it's funded. you take the stupid lawyers out of it. that's what you do if you're a leader and that's what this is all about, this military thing. this is about leadership. where's chuck ham snl have you seen chuck around? where? where is the interview he did? where is this man? the department of defense secretary? where is he? this guy should be fired immediately. he has no right t
and in the pentagon's list of announces, these death gratuities have frequently been included. so the members of congress who acted on this and those signing it thought these death benefits were covered and there wouldn't be a problem with it. lawyers then got into the act when the issue arose and decided that, no, it didn't really cover it. we're hearing at fox news today there's a possibility the justice department may have gotten involved. there's a lot of -- >> i want the name of the...
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. >> channelling the pentagon's chief, he says any investment must be the consent of congress. >> many people say president goes to war when he feels like. our founding father never wanted to give so much power to one person. >> paul's ongoing feud with chris christie. >> when you lose you fight more. there's a struggle to find what is the winning message and combination. >> he disagrees with christie's embrace of president barack obama in the, quote, excessive federal dollars. he said he'd support the governor should he become the nominee. >> in all likelihood i can't imagine not supporting the republican nominee, including christie. >> he says it needs to remain in the party of young voters. he believes privacy rights would appeal to groups that spends much time on smart phones and the internet. >> john, thank you. >>> tune in monday when senator paul will be a guest in the senator seed. he'll take questions from bret, panelists and social media from you. don't miss it. >>> toronto mayor rob ford admitted smoking crack and buying illegal drugs is now receiving help for drinking probl
. >> channelling the pentagon's chief, he says any investment must be the consent of congress. >> many people say president goes to war when he feels like. our founding father never wanted to give so much power to one person. >> paul's ongoing feud with chris christie. >> when you lose you fight more. there's a struggle to find what is the winning message and combination. >> he disagrees with christie's embrace of president barack obama in the, quote, excessive...
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many republicans very upset about the impact it's had on the pentagon, on defense spending in this country. but when you look at it from the democrats perspective, it is absolutely taking away the guts of the social safety net for so many programs. >> well, the president and democrats have pardoned this. they could have let this flexibility bill go through to enable each agency to decide how to cut the fat in each agency instead of doing the across the board sequester cut, but they chose not to do that. >> you mean back originally. >> yeah. i mean, that's where we are. >> no. but what the point here is why now. part of the objection by the way to those deadlines was that you would allow the second wave of sequesters then to hit come january if you didn't in fact say we're going to have to have a budget before january 15th. so what you're getting is here all of these ancillary events piled on when you should be looking at what is at issue at the moment, which is opening the government. and let us get the debt ceiling raised so we don't deal with these negatives. but instead you have, i thin
many republicans very upset about the impact it's had on the pentagon, on defense spending in this country. but when you look at it from the democrats perspective, it is absolutely taking away the guts of the social safety net for so many programs. >> well, the president and democrats have pardoned this. they could have let this flexibility bill go through to enable each agency to decide how to cut the fat in each agency instead of doing the across the board sequester cut, but they chose...
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. >> jennifer, thank you, from the pentagon. >>> ghost busting in montana, terrorist busted and hillary clinton busts joe biden's chops. a lot in there. we're waiting on the senate vote and it could be any minute. we've been hearing that for about an hour. that's the way washington works sometimes. we'll be here. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] eeny, meeny, miny, go. ♪ ♪ more adventures await in the new seven-passenger lexus gx. lease the 2014 gx 460 for $499 a month for 27 months. see your lexus dealer. >>> now, from the political grapevine. in case you weren't keeping track the 2016 political election is 1,619 days away. apparently that's not too soon for mud slinging between two front runners, hillary clinton gave a speech in atlanta that was closed to journalists and the atlanta constitution reported clinton bragged about her support of the osama bin laden raid. in contrast, to vice president joe biden's opposition. without turning t talk a lot, pirate leader, known as "big mouth" has been arrested in a sting operation seemingly right out of the movies. belgian undercover agents conv
. >> jennifer, thank you, from the pentagon. >>> ghost busting in montana, terrorist busted and hillary clinton busts joe biden's chops. a lot in there. we're waiting on the senate vote and it could be any minute. we've been hearing that for about an hour. that's the way washington works sometimes. we'll be here. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] eeny, meeny, miny, go. ♪ ♪ more adventures await in the new seven-passenger lexus gx. lease the 2014 gx 460 for $499 a month for 27...
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but the lawyers in the pentagon spent the week to interpret the law and we have folks on military base that are on furlough when they should not be. it is signed by the president, but the white house is using pressure to say no, we are not sure whether the military is out or in it and they know they are in it full well. >> is the white house being arbitrarily in shutting the down the world war ii memorial and things that don't have one thing to do to be shut down. they are spending more money by closing them rather than ignoring them. >> the lincoln memioral is open air 365 days a year and all of the previous government shutdowns that occurred in the past 30 years or so. lincoln memorial is always open. but this time they are putting barriers around the lincoln and world war ii memorial. to us that is applying political pressure. and the situation is bad enough. why would you try to make it worse as a president? you need to protect people and that's your responsibility as a leader. >> speaker boehner said there will not be a default on the debt ceiling, was that a statement of surrende
but the lawyers in the pentagon spent the week to interpret the law and we have folks on military base that are on furlough when they should not be. it is signed by the president, but the white house is using pressure to say no, we are not sure whether the military is out or in it and they know they are in it full well. >> is the white house being arbitrarily in shutting the down the world war ii memorial and things that don't have one thing to do to be shut down. they are spending more...
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the pentagon will reimburse the group once that shutdown is over. families of five people that were killed in afghanistan must take the money from charity, not the government they died for. general jack keane, fox news analyst. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. >> make sense of this. >> it is hard to make any sense of it frankly. i agree with mr. o'reilly. this is absolutely a disgrace. it is one of the most shameful things i ever have seen a bureaucracy do to people. to actually hurt people who are suffering and grieving over the loss of a loved one is staggering. i certainly do think that some dod official when they recognized this payment was not part of the congressional pay act that recently been passed to pay the military and civilians, i think that official should have paid them anyway. that would have been a courageous act to be sure because it is probably in violation of some law but i don't think for a minute that person would have been fired. rather that person would have acclaimed for taking action. i used to tell my generals w
the pentagon will reimburse the group once that shutdown is over. families of five people that were killed in afghanistan must take the money from charity, not the government they died for. general jack keane, fox news analyst. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. >> make sense of this. >> it is hard to make any sense of it frankly. i agree with mr. o'reilly. this is absolutely a disgrace. it is one of the most shameful things i ever have seen a bureaucracy do to...
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there was some confusion at the pentagon. essential personnel at work guaranteed everybody their way. the point you're making, we ought to be bringing people back to work shouldn'ter rather than later. shep then that's changing. more and more people are going away each day. a headline from christian science monitor, government shutdown forces 90% of staff cut at the nuclear regulatory commission. the agency had been able to skirt the shutdown by using carryover funds but the funds have run dry. that's happening in agency after agency, and along the way the polls are changing. the gallup organization, since 1939, has been asking an open-ended questions of americans. what's the biggest problem in the united states? this year more people said, the government, than at any time in the history of this country. and in addition, the lowest republican approval rating in the -- in recent history, where in 1999 when the impeached bill clinton. that was 32% now. you're at 28%. are you concerned about your party? >> i'm concerned about th
there was some confusion at the pentagon. essential personnel at work guaranteed everybody their way. the point you're making, we ought to be bringing people back to work shouldn'ter rather than later. shep then that's changing. more and more people are going away each day. a headline from christian science monitor, government shutdown forces 90% of staff cut at the nuclear regulatory commission. the agency had been able to skirt the shutdown by using carryover funds but the funds have run dry....
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this week on friday the pentagon announced they are going to deploy 14 additional missile intercepters to alaska to deal with the potential nuclear threat from north korea. what do you think of the idea? how serious do you think is the threat from the north korean a a good morning and are we paying a price for the fact that president obama scaled back on missile defense when came into office? >> well, look, i applaud the efforts. i talked to senator kerry and i know we have a group heading off to poland on monday to talk about this further. i applaud it as i mentioned. i do hope we will focus on a base on the eastern side with radar facilities. and i think the question is, chris, how does the nondeplowment of the fourth phase of our european based issues it temperature affect us over time. there is technical issues we will be getting into this week with the the pentagon and the state department but certainly i think most all of us applaud the efforts to beef up our missile defense on the west coast chris do you think that kim young unand the north koreans are a threat to the u.s. >> i
this week on friday the pentagon announced they are going to deploy 14 additional missile intercepters to alaska to deal with the potential nuclear threat from north korea. what do you think of the idea? how serious do you think is the threat from the north korean a a good morning and are we paying a price for the fact that president obama scaled back on missile defense when came into office? >> well, look, i applaud the efforts. i talked to senator kerry and i know we have a group...
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commander is reportedly laid out three different plans for the pentagon. national security correspondent has the details on that. >> fox has learned that the white house is not considering any option that would leave more than 10,000 american troops in afghanistan beyond 2014. according to a senior administration official, despite reports the white house was going to leave a larger footprint. the top united states commander in afghanistan, general allen, provided three options to the pentagon for a post 2014 force, and nothing went north of 10,000 troops. >> with 10,000 limit, that suggests the administration is trying to hold down the numbers. the most likely final figure is 6,000 giving us a special operating direct action element and probably the use of drones for strikes and maybe two bases in eastern afghanistan and a small headquarters element in kabul. >> the final decision on troop levels rests with the president. general allen remains the subject of an investigation into whether he exchanged inappropriate e-mails with tampa bay socialite jill kell
commander is reportedly laid out three different plans for the pentagon. national security correspondent has the details on that. >> fox has learned that the white house is not considering any option that would leave more than 10,000 american troops in afghanistan beyond 2014. according to a senior administration official, despite reports the white house was going to leave a larger footprint. the top united states commander in afghanistan, general allen, provided three options to the...
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the pentagon announced during the obama/reid shutdown families would receive benefits thanks to great americans at fisher house. the charity agreed to foot the bill until democrats are willing to come to the negotiating table and end the shutdown which is down right pathetic. our military families deserve better from their commander in chief. by the way, throughout the show check out the bottom of the screen. you will see the various impacts of the shutdown and how it has hurt the military and the white house has discretion in terms of spending. joining me with reaction are former obama campaign press secretary ben la bolt and press secretary for president george bush, ari fleischer. military chaplains can't say mass, cannot offer services to people serving. world war ii memorial shut down, normandy, shut down, vietnam memorial shut down, death benefits shut down. even tv, football and sfwaebl games shut down but the president oos golf course is open. why wouldn't they support just funding the v.a. and these things in the beginning? >> the president supports funding the whole governme
the pentagon announced during the obama/reid shutdown families would receive benefits thanks to great americans at fisher house. the charity agreed to foot the bill until democrats are willing to come to the negotiating table and end the shutdown which is down right pathetic. our military families deserve better from their commander in chief. by the way, throughout the show check out the bottom of the screen. you will see the various impacts of the shutdown and how it has hurt the military and...
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of the government isn't important in terms of the waste, the fraud, the duplication in terms of the pentagon in buying things that they don't need. we are spending money on things that we do not have on things that we do not need. >> thank you so much for being our guest today. >> good to see you. >> so, here is a question for you. do you have a dream? a dream you would love to turn into a successful business. most of us do. but how do you actually do it. there are real people that have turned their hobbies and passions into a profitable life's work. bonnie market. kim pollit and jen rip founder of old owl's brew. ladies good to see you. >> let me start with you. tell me what you were doing before and how you decided that you could one day have this stationary that we see in front of it. >> i worked in fashion right here in new york city and although i loved fashion i fell in love with event planning. i was a director of special events and every night i planned an event for a celebrity or author on a back book tour. and i took my knowledge and started my own stationary company. and now it is
of the government isn't important in terms of the waste, the fraud, the duplication in terms of the pentagon in buying things that they don't need. we are spending money on things that we do not have on things that we do not need. >> thank you so much for being our guest today. >> good to see you. >> so, here is a question for you. do you have a dream? a dream you would love to turn into a successful business. most of us do. but how do you actually do it. there are real people...
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jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. but we begin with chief white house correspondent, ed henry on the politics of the syria crisis both here and overseas and where we are right now. good evening, ed. >> reporter: good evening. they believe that not only that chemical weapons were used but that they can pin it on the sire yan -- syrian government. secretary john kerry flatly declared president obama believes there must be accountability for the use of what he called the world's most heinous weapons. >> what we saw in syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. it defies any code of morality. let me be clear. the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. >> reporter: kerry's strong response came as u.n. inspectors were finally let in. syrian dictator assad blocked entry for five days. and they seemed to make the legal case for military action declaring the evidence against assad is grounded in fact. >> there is
jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. but we begin with chief white house correspondent, ed henry on the politics of the syria crisis both here and overseas and where we are right now. good evening, ed. >> reporter: good evening. they believe that not only that chemical weapons were used but that they can pin it on the sire yan -- syrian government. secretary john kerry flatly declared president obama believes there must be accountability for the use of what he called the world's most...
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the pentagon has delayed a test firing of a minute man icbm this week fear it could ratchet up tensions with north korea and the young dictator, kim jong-un^. does the obama administration risk looking like it is caving? >> absolutely not, take a step back from the whole picture. he is engaging in behavior we have seen for many years, and the own us is on north korea to take a step and they can undertake their economic development which can only happen if they rejoin the international community. >> having said that north korea has moved a medium-range missile to the east coast and said on friday they would not be surprised if they fired and the south koreans specific it, but it is in range of guam, how would the president regard it given the fact you now have delayed this missile test by the united states if north korea goes ahead and fires their missile? >> well, we have seen the reports that you cite as jake carney said we would not be surprised. missile launches have been part of this repeated pattern behavior for the north korea regime. the own success on north korea to do the right
the pentagon has delayed a test firing of a minute man icbm this week fear it could ratchet up tensions with north korea and the young dictator, kim jong-un^. does the obama administration risk looking like it is caving? >> absolutely not, take a step back from the whole picture. he is engaging in behavior we have seen for many years, and the own us is on north korea to take a step and they can undertake their economic development which can only happen if they rejoin the international...
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if it comes down to that, higher taxes or sequestration, the pentagon cuts, where do you you go? where do you come down? >> obviously i don't want to see taxes increased but what i would like to see is the president call the leaders over to the white house and say look, we got to solve this problem. this sequestration, secretary panetta, outgoing secretary of defense is one of the most widely respected men or person in washington, d.c. and he has been saying this nationalstate our nation security. republicans and democrats are responsible for this new cliff and i will take responsibility tore it for the republicans but we he have got to avoid it. we have got to stop it. >> chris: but if the president says the price of that is more taxes? >> the president is the same one that during the campaign said it's not going to happen. remember that? he just dismissed it. and a lot of us, in fact, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte and i were traveling around the country warning what is going to happen with sequestration. it is devastating. the world is dangerous. i'm sorry i'm a little emotio
if it comes down to that, higher taxes or sequestration, the pentagon cuts, where do you you go? where do you come down? >> obviously i don't want to see taxes increased but what i would like to see is the president call the leaders over to the white house and say look, we got to solve this problem. this sequestration, secretary panetta, outgoing secretary of defense is one of the most widely respected men or person in washington, d.c. and he has been saying this nationalstate our nation...
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pass the pentagon budget. a c.r. for that. pass the c.r. for the interior so the national parks stay open. pass it for the smithsonian so the panda cam stays open. every time an issue is raised they say this will be shut down. republicans should pass a c.r. or a budget to stay open to demonstrate to the country that the republicans want to keep the government open and obama and reid are the two individuals who are guilty of extortion. >> i agree whole heartedly. >> hang on, sean. >> i have a question. >> i was going to agree, too. that's the way the government is supposed to work. there are 13 appropriation s bills. when the government works properly, by the way this is true on both sides. when congress is doing its job that's what happens. the reason we have a continuing resolution tonight that can't get passed is because congress hasn't done its job for five years. >> steve, they haven't done it since 1996. >> the government by continuing resolution has gone for five years. >> let me agree with steve on this thing. we have to get back to
pass the pentagon budget. a c.r. for that. pass the c.r. for the interior so the national parks stay open. pass it for the smithsonian so the panda cam stays open. every time an issue is raised they say this will be shut down. republicans should pass a c.r. or a budget to stay open to demonstrate to the country that the republicans want to keep the government open and obama and reid are the two individuals who are guilty of extortion. >> i agree whole heartedly. >> hang on, sean....
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jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with the latest. >> reporter: shortly after midnight. kim jong in signed documents to put rockets on standby. it's taking the owner leader at his word. he at the no paper tiger. north korea stated television made the announcement. it said the enemies are bringing the dark clouds after nuclear war, testing self-restraint and added the dpr can no longer tolerated this. he ordered to blow up everything in ashes if an order is issues. >> reporter: in show of solidarity while the russian and chinese foreign ministry urged them restraint. >> we hope that relevant parties will push together for a turnaround of a tense situation. >> reporter: some critics at home said the pentagon decision to send the b-2 stealth bombers could rean peninsula was provocative. >> pentagon was stuck in a rock and hard place. on the one hand north korea had had threatened a nuclear attack against the united states. the united states ally, south korea was extremely worried about this so the u.s. wanted to send out a strong signal. >> reporter: the bchtd 2s was not su
jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with the latest. >> reporter: shortly after midnight. kim jong in signed documents to put rockets on standby. it's taking the owner leader at his word. he at the no paper tiger. north korea stated television made the announcement. it said the enemies are bringing the dark clouds after nuclear war, testing self-restraint and added the dpr can no longer tolerated this. he ordered to blow up everything in ashes if an order is issues. >> reporter: in...